Davide Croff graduated in economics from the University Ca' Foscari, later obtaining a graduate specialization in economics at Pembroke College, Oxford University. As a businessman, manager, financial expert, and banker, Croff has always cultivated his passion for art and culture, and in particular for music. Croff unites his expertise in the mechanisms of finance with his sensitivity to art in his most recent professional position as president of the Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia